tbilisi accuses three georgian photojournalists including president saakashvili as a personal photographer of spying for russia. while georgia claims to have video calling fish in skeptics inside the country say the government is only trying to drum up on t.v. i should hysteria. the few minutes. turkmen officials remain tight lipped over reports that at least two hundred people have been killed in the blast in arms depot. and rupert murdoch heads to the u.k. to take charge of the phone hacking cards this threatening to engulf is

a media empire. and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our teacher in glad to have you with us let's get right to the top stories story georgian photojournalists including president saakashvili personal photographer have been charged with spying for russia after being arrested on thursday our correspondent peter all over reports. initially there were four photojournalists arrested on thursday one of those has now been released without charge over the three that remain in custody are all pool reporters meaning that they had very close quarters contact with the president of georgia mikheil saakashvili we are hearing this one of those who is in custody has confessed on video to having been a spy to be sending information to moscow and enough video confession he is. one of

those three are in custody now with regard to the third member of the team he's believed to be on a hunger strike denying any charges against him now the reason they would charge this comes after their personal hard drives were seized guns detailed mumps the presidential compound the presidential goings on the the the daily schedule of mikheil saakashvili those phones on that hard drive this resulted in the charges being leveled against them now they will remain in custody until september when they will face a closed doors trial russia is accused of being a little quick on the truth when it comes to labeling people spies they say that there isn't enough evidence to link these people to to moscow and says that the russians are the only people that think that russia has jumped the gun a few times on labeling people spice. the georgians or.

anyone i guess is just eleven members and that has been noticed not just by russia but the key international organizations like the u.n. lost to this team people arrested on espionage charges now nine of those were found guilty just last week and hunted down sentences ranging between eleven years and fourteen years in torture itself there has been. an outcry against this we're hearing from a georgian daily newspaper. of what they tend to determine to be a witch hunt going on against anybody who. poses saakashvili they say that the salt off it was business man that it was politicians scientists and. journalists position say saakashvili is trying to. be spy saugus us it would suit to try and put himself across as a hero in school political points you are. you

are very very. interesting a lot of. it is going through to control people because it will seem right because those it's very it's not really you get into a rush and he's never. criticised who or his life were right here. and they say this anybody runs the risk of having themselves labelled a spy and having their reputation brought them up like that should they stand up against saakashvili. all of our reporting for us there now george's opposition leader and you know burjanadze told our t.v. evidence the authorities are claiming they've got could have been obtained under pressure. it's not a test case of one person who'll be on the reddest even for trying to fix the mission a specially we had to take into account that he was. the only achieved life too and they have

a very small child was released after three. weeks the program mentioned the project before me to say one hundred percent what is behind us that watches a situation in georgia time to time we are receiving such candles but these condos had no real legal outcomes and we never saw any kind of real that human patients that government you think right now government decided to irish journalist she's surprised too political because the government we are trying to control everybody and i think until now we didn't you see even one of the did. that was some of the same thing. going to have a kind of looking site when you have problems with social and health care when you have a problem and we. are immensely. and the rights of people when you love your country twenty percent of thirty thirty because they feel i'm a good person but it is possible that you should find somebody who will be you'll

never see the country big very old fully. and. quite easy to greatness russian and you need and ever think what you. see the country russian really creating things i cannot say to me. trying to link everybody who they gave to you more against the regime and really fighting for real democracy in this country she's trying to repercussion. it's feared that around two hundred people may have been killed in a series of explosions that shook the city of turkmenistan some local reports say the blasts happened at a munitions depot though the government continues to claim it was a fireworks factory state officials have not confirmed any casualties the affected area is closed to the public and police are stopping anyone from filming or taking pictures many people can't contact their families or friends because of the disruption to telephone lines

a special government commission has reportedly now been set up to investigate the incident turkmenistan has long been a very secretive state with the internet banned until just recently actually contacted the editor of a human rights website in turkmenistan who gave us this latest information. starting from yesterday people began returning to the town the fires have been put up to the locals you know helping soldiers to clean up according to reports the number of casualties and those who died because of injuries has reached nine hundred but we have to verify this information i cannot guarantee its reliability but it's certainly more than two hundred people and many died in hospital the residents of about dan are no longer in a state of panic but some are still looking for their family members and i can't say that the situation is calm in some remote regions people aren't aware of what's happened as they have no internet access some are perhaps unhappy as they would like the president to announce a state of mourning or express his condolences it seems that there are forty sons

willing to admit that there are casualties but there's no official theory as to the causes of the explosion which initially there was an opinion that if i happened because of very hot weather frankly speaking it's hard for me to therefore i won't be drawing any conclusions as four witnesses many servicemen who were guarding those warehouses in the fire. and who are with our team coming up later this hour guilty until proven innocent. does the front page of coverage of the u.s. criminal cases muddy the waters of the. system we report on concerns that many trials are being prejudiced. the owner of the news of the world rupert murdoch is due to fly in to london to confront the crisis at his troubled british tabloid police are now investigating deletion of millions of e-mails that were potentially valuable evidence in the phone hacking scandal the paper is accused of snooping on the phone messages of politicians celebrities and victims of crime a number of arrests were made on friday including that of andy corson

a former editor of the paper who has also served as the prime minister's only a chief the tabloids a former world correspondent was also arrested both men were later released on bail the prime minister has announced two independent public inquiries as a result of the scandal meanwhile news of the world staff are preparing for its final edition this sunday following the announcement it's to close john gaunt who used to work for one of murdoch's newspapers says the media and political circles in the u.k. are too close. based close down the news the world so up to five hundred people have lost their jobs and mostly people were not only used the world when these allegations of hacking happened because what's going to happen now is the free press in the united kingdom which is something we really pride ourselves on there's a real danger now we're going to get overregulation by the government as a direct result of this of poor of its behavior by some journalists on the news of

the world i'm also has a major problem because i think that successive governments in britain both the labor government are in control before and now david cameron the conservatives have been too damn close to rupert murdoch and other newspaper proprietors but all of it is too cozy and comfortable if you don't have a real democracy you have to have a separation between the press surely the political establishment and the government of the day you also need to have separation between the judiciary and the. through areas in britain and the united kingdom they've become too close over the last thirteen or fourteen years and i believe that last may not ordinary people in britain their views and nor really be represented other in the newspapers or in the political arena that's bad for democracy so david cameron should start investigating himself as far as i'm concerned six treme embarrassing for him because the former editor of the news of the world and the coastline of course

became his press secretary and one would your employer a man who's already had to resign over phone hacking why would you take into the hearts of government where he could about access to top secret dossier as an information it's a sorry sorry day let me tell you not just for the british press but for british democracy. and of course now you can have your say on that story at our website r.t. dot com in our latest poll today we're asking is shutting down the news of the world the right decision more than half of you agree that rupert murdoch's media dominance or should it be finished sixteen percent also say yes but for a reason that such tabloids are an embarrassment to the british media forty percent of the viewers think it's the wrong decision and that the paper's current staff should not be punished and at the least popular answer is that the news of the world has been made a scapegoat while you're online you can also check out some other stories we're covering including. america's copyright clamp down with tough new restrictions for

downloading and sharing films and music plus. the sky is not the limit we track the marathon voyage of the olympic torch from earth to space and about as russia prepares for the two thousand and fourteen winter games. please. defectors from syria's security forces that were deployed to quell demonstrations against president assad say they were ordered to shoot to kill in interviews released by human rights watch they claim their superior officers gave the command to fire on the protesters meanwhile unrest continues to grow hundreds of thousands took to the streets in the city of hama on friday activists say at least fifteen people were killed and more than two hundred arrested amid anti-government

demonstrations across the country this comes as the mask is accused a u.s. envoy of inciting violence in hama something that washington is strongly denies more than fourteen hundred people have been killed since anti-government protests began in march but as syria's deputy foreign minister told r.t. his country will not tolerate any interference foreign. clearance in here it's a fair. series position has been clearly articulated and the global community is aware of the military force in syria hands so even if the west is thinking of it again we would advise them not to syria is the key to the balance of the middle east and eventually the symptoms we face here will drive this region to destroy the western countries are well aware of this but nevertheless they keep hating arabs and syria in particular what is of our political star not really out of israeli conflict because of our research events of success but our progress on the reform struggle for under the leadership of president bashar al assad what happened in syria where they expected to spread like an epidemic across other other countries

in order to weaken rapidly now israel in the west will pose their civilization a supremacy of values the mindset of us i very carefully follow the signals west wants from especially view of the recent events and i must say that's a truth i do not wish as well. and you can watch that full interview with syria's it deputy foreign minister on our teeth throughout today. the us media has come under fire for its reporting of a number of high profile criminal trials a case of a single mother casey anthony acquitted of murdering her two year old child earlier this week has been at the center of heated debate for years and as our teaser starts here truckin i reports there are concerns that public opinion is unduly swayed by the headlines rather than evidence. innocent until proven guilty it's a whole mark principle of the american justice system legally after shoved aside

from the vigor of some of the arrests young african black and brown subjects being sat down in history in an obsessive kind of way fifty shots sixty sets. in our back as we ride or as we want to beating suspects into offenses in cases of entrapment entrapment is not legal entrapment is getting someone to do something that they would normally do to perp walks that parade suspects in handcuffs for the world to see. to a media frenzy devouring some cases and not others i finally did before the. guilty until proven guilty in these cases the government is changing the laws so are you presumed guilty from the get go and how much of a role does the media play if you're accused of being a mistrial it's going to be a huge headlines on page one when you exonerated it's on page twenty seven below

the fold to column inches and your neighbors somehow didn't manage to catch it that they server would still thinks you're a child molester not guilty take the not guilty verdict in the casey anthony murder case involving her two year old daughter the court of public opinion remains split from a court of justice all thanks to nonstop media coverage of the case for the past three years. it's crazy making it's made it except the idea that we're from the media is going through going to go green in the case of former i.m.f. head to many extras con the media satisfy their gluttonous taste with extreme passion only for the case to crumble i think there should be all the media outlets are required to play your exoneration up as big and as long as your accusation this is rarely the case as do these practices in the criminal justice system spread so does the finger pointing and questioning the future of human rights in the us where as we call in as americans also it's the one you zone on like. this is getting

now going this is really getting ugly the principles that he was once prided itself on are under fire suspects are having to fight their battles publicly the minute they are arrest in that sense to prove their innocence underlining the discrepancies in the u.s. criminal justice system are alive and kicking the situation out marty in iraq. and still to come this hour heading east. you take you on a tour of the could have gone a region in southern side bierria a place where an entrepreneur is that single handedly fighting for so brightly and a better life style along. with messing about on the road just outside moscow but one morning a wet suit case wind out and just a few minutes. under some news making headlines around the world right now a seven point one earthquake has struck off the coast of japan prompting

a tsunami warning to the stricken for she nuclear power plant has been evacuated as a precaution in march an earthquake and tsunami left nearly twenty three thousand dead and triggered the ongoing nuclear crisis out the plant. south sudan has become the world's newest nation following separation from the north thousands of people have taken part in massive celebrations in the city of juba the capital of the new state however the two separated countries have not yet reached an agreement on their borders natural resources or the status of their citizens clashes over disputed territories still continue in some areas. pro palestinian activists have clashed with security forces in two separate incidents in the west bank some of the protesters holed stones at israeli soldiers who responded with several arrests earlier about a hundred a probe helston campaigners clashed with security forces at a major israeli checkpoint calling for the return of refugees to israel. no matter

what position you hold in society if there are some accusations they could ruin your reputation for ever even if they might proved to be false mud sticks and the allegations themselves can be enough to destroy careers lawyer harshness to our own resident in new york asks people about the thorny issue of the law on sex crimes. is that still espoused cases of d s k angelina sounds are getting a lot of coverage in the news do you think it's right for women or men to report any sexual encounter they feel uncomfortable with this week let's talk about that there are two rules this time trouble lee and the second rule is that the till proven otherwise if she feels that she's been violated i think reporting is the best idea and how that plays out you know that that's how that plays out the reporting is should be a woman's instinct at what point does it cross over to consider just flirtation.

yeah it's a it's a tough line between those two people two people it's impossible i think women should not get in situations i think there are lots of times that we put ourselves in situations and we have a messenger inside us that says get out of there and sometimes we don't listen to that message one says no more she says no it's a no is it the same for women as for man one hundred percent. so why do we treat it more as a woman's issue because it happens more often to women. who have a pride to go. for. money rich rich and poor girls for. good that's just another way for women to get rich. so do you think it's fair that the laws generally tend to side with women. and i think it's impossible to really say what's fair at this point again like ari ari is of what they are to so much

a thing in general my inclination is to say yes it is because women have for the most part of been the victims for so many years that you always have to side more with them in order to make it equal it's like affirmative action in a way like you have to do something to make things better so that they're not always the victims no matter how you feel about the lines of sexual assault the bottom line is that the rule no means no will always be a good one to follow. and now it's time for our russia to take you on a journey two thousand kilometers east of moscow. welcome to the core garnet region are located at the very tip of southern siberia it's home to mountains and untouched landscapes but the natural beauty of color gun

is not appealing to many of its residents entire villages are becoming ghost towns as young people move to the cities or to the boycott manage to find one place though where the residents have a good reason to stay the trees are taking us there next. year we are in the village of chast. core ground region and for the past santa fifteen years its population has been steadily increasing here's the reason why it's monday morning and alexander a former prison guard is it work testing the incoming employees for alcohol. says they're over the limit there is a choice to be started for a no show and lose thirty percent of them on salary or job three kilometers and be docked ten percent of that month's wage. as though we do the testing every morning regardless of gender or position with. the could because they will see it on their

paycheck and that's a strong incentive not to treat you new working week. unfortunately alcohol abstinence is the idea of this man alexander able to cough he's the director of the still fun and likes to extend his influence as far as possible and i have big ideas to the very epitome of micromanagement which for the past fifteen years he's been preaching to kids out please how to make good sausages and how to live a good life. is a must it's the quality of the product the first place and it's the terms where you keep. firing dozens of workers for showing up drunk at work let's understand it not shrinking employees on the harms of all the honker three times a day during the breaks you go. wrong for the first time should be beaten with a stick those calls for the second time should be beaten and probably. should be

hanged as a former boxer he's not shy about exercising his rule with an r in face and has built his version of the iron curtain around his plan of dozens of video cameras around the facility employees have no chance to circumvent the law of big brother on the outside on the longer the issue. there is a very rigid and those people find it hard to comply but those who don't have alexander's rules are here. and some do strive to set the rules of the game doesn't and within his plan the only corporate taxpayer in the village of four thousand people is thinking on a very wide notion of social responsibility using the plants profits he gave a local roads renovated a school and built pick church and while he agrees that modesty is a virtue of his fondness of giving guidance and advice is evident whatever he goes in you are doesn't matter that you come from a village what matters most is to get

a good education thank god we've got and behave well in school is that clear. this approach has divided villagers the majority believe alexander is a blessing or a minority and primarily those who he's fired are not as impressed. as the old saying goes one man's meat is another man's poison now everybody in this. bill xander philosophy and it's a nasty experience reading it around some people call him a control freak others to resort to more agricultural language his opponents also include some local officials who believe that alexander has too much power that infringes on their own authority bill xander accuses them of not doing enough for the people when i ask him whether he'd like to run for office he's the response was a resounding no. i think the whole purpose of power is to create to make a life around you better and in this regard i have all the power that i need. i

think every successful activity requires discipline strict discipline and it starts with me instead of waiting for somebody to come and do something i do it myself i mean people. don't understand that i was doing it for the wrong good. many historians make the keys that russians prefer authoritarian leaders and tackling the deep problems of alcohol addiction and rural isolation treat discipline and total control. but in alexander's case it seems to have proved efficient axon avoid r t the village of chast those who are going to region water sports enthusiasts are flocking to the outskirts of moscow to bag a bargain or two this weekend yachts and speed boats are changing hands of the annual marine fair where one of the sailors can buy or sell used vessels tom by his works for a wetsuit to find out more. if you're thinking about russia you go probably

thinking about an awful lot of land but there's also an awful lot of water here and is this event today the world on the outskirts of moscow which is trying to show all the fun you could have around the water in russia there are three types of people who come to this event today first of all the look surest times they're here to look at to try out and maybe to buy books like behind you we're looking at a price tag of about half a million euros and up but inside no expense spared we had a look around some of these boats and on indian side they really are on the blood surest site second time the people here allegedly people they've come here to relax on the flanks they've come here to drink cocktails in the sun and to watch the first time people be active people they've come here to take part in a lot of the competitions here the sporting events wakeboarding the surfing competitions and they've come to try and show that you can have a lot of fun and be active in the water and i'm here to try and show that by doing

this. last night when she was going to come out in the water in russia i'm going to go vote now i'm going to try myself clear. oh tom i hope the person on the boat was making sure he wasn't up to anything lewd or lascivious now moscow's historic red square was a packed with motor fans on saturday to see off the teens on the two thousand and eleven silk way a rally crews from twenty five countries are taking part in the four thousand kilometer challenge that's part of the punishing dakar series racers on the moscow sochi leg are due to finish on july sixteenth with the winner picking up a free hundred thousand dollars for a. recount of our top stories that's coming up in just a moment right here on r.g.p.

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